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Meanings of hauteur in English

Portuguese
arrogância
Catalan
inflor
Spanish
orgullo

Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors.

        arrogância
        Usage of hauteur in English
        1
        To think otherwise takes the hauteur of a 1950s East Berlin apparatchik.
        The Irish Times
        2
        There was a subtle hauteur in the voice; it subdued Kitty's inquisitiveness.
        The Lure of the Mask
        3
        She has neither airs nor hauteur; you will be marvellously well received.
        Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 7
        4
        She stalked off with as much hauteur as her arthritis would allow.
        The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
        5
        An air of studied hauteur and indifference as they approached the corner.
        One Basket
        6
        And as she looked she laughed with just the suggestion of hauteur.
        The Island of Faith
        7
        But the Corinthians also were full of disputatious curiosity and intellectual hauteur.
        The Life of St. Paul
        8
        Nor is it about snobbery: I may have had moments of hauteur.
        The Guardian
        9
        Her manner was timid yet dignified without the least particle of hauteur.
        Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals / In Two Volumes, V...
        10
        He flung open the window, and said, with some degree of hauteur:
        The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate
        11
        Rather they have a chilly neo-classical hauteur that speaks of sublime ambition.
        The Guardian
        12
        But back of the gentleness was a hauteur, and they were still.
        A Mountain Woman
        13
        He surveyed the man who addressed him with a touch of hauteur.
        The Bars of Iron
        14
        He was gravity and coldness personified, with a shade of hauteur added.
        Monsieur Lecoq, v. 1
        15
        His sense of humour awoke, and Federalist hauteur ceased to fret him.
        Lewis Rand
        16
        Only for a brief second did this strange and uncalled-forhauteur obtain.
        Graustark
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